The diamond drill., 1887-04-02

crat OF ST. Paul
II is rumored at Springfield, H., that
X. ii. Wade, Superintendent OF the Wabash
System will succeed Jadge Cooley as re-
ssaveF.
A boarding mouse was burned at Glove
land, Ohio, on Sunday. Two lives were
lost.
Judge Samuel ii. Treat, Of the United
States District Court for Southern Illinois,
died at his home in Springfield, H. at ?
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Judge Treat
has been in moor health almost year but
has attended his duties on the tonch until
couple OF weeks ago. Judge Treat
leaves no offspring, and his wife haa been
dead about four years. He was appointed
10 the United States Bench by President
Pierce in 1854, and was 70 years OF age.
The residence of Mrs. Carrie Corcoran
a widow so years old, was burned at Wal
nut Hills, Ohio, Sunday, and she was SO
badly burned that she died
Flames destroyed four dwellings at Her
mosa, H., early Friday morning. John
McEnnery escaped with his sick wife from
his two children. They were saved by q
neighbor named Murphy, at the risk of
his own life.
-four mill, at 0mro. Wis., was burned
Thursday morning. Loss $4,000.
The entire business portion of Dunbar,
Neb., was destroyed by fire Thursday.
Loss $4,000; insurance light.
fire at Gainesville, Texas. destroyed
property TO the amount of about s2 o0o
A frame boarding house at the Colby
Mine near Bessemer, Mich, was destroyed
by fire early Wednesday morning, twelve
men perishing in the flames. OF nine
others, who escaped 10y jumping from
windows, a half dozen were seriously in
iured.
J. g. Haggett, his son and two daugh-
ters were drowned in San Francisco Bay,
by the upsetting OF row-boai. Haggett
was the owner OF large mining property in
Arizona.
The food has resulted in the drowning
of five persons near Legrace, D. 7.
A Pittsburg dispatch states that the
Chicago Express, on the Pittsburgh d Ft
Wayne II. r., was wrecked at Lee:onia
Ohio, on Friday morning The express
train which left Chicago in the morning
had reached Leetonia. There is heavy
grade at this point, and the engineer dis
covered that the air brake hose was leak
ing. He stopped the train, and while ex-
amining il freight train came along and
crashed into the rear end, completely tel
escoping the sleeper and the passenger car
next. The engineer, William Beall of
Allegheny, who was underneath the engine
al the time fixing the air-brake, was hor-
ribly crushed and died almost instantly.
One passenger, j. G. Hazlett, in the sleep
ing car was fatally injured. Six or eight
other persons were badly bruised.
Passenger trains on the Panhandle
Road collidcd Thursday night in a cut
near Hagenbach Station. Ohio. No pas
sengers were injured. Engineer Butter
worth was slightly wounded.
Jacob Bread died, Wednesday night, at
his home in Newark, o., from the results
of scalding in the face from a pan of
boiling water thrown by his wife. She is
now a ,raving maniac
William Elder aged so years, was run
over and killed by passenger train on the
Rock Island X. r., near Peoria, Ill, on
Thursday.
A mixed train on the Louisville and
Evansville X. Il. plunged through trestle
near the Wabash river demolishing sew
eral cars and killing the brakeman, John
Samues.
John Duryea, at the County Hospital in
Chicago, while taking an alcohol bath,
upset the alcohol and died from injuries
resulting.
The losses on the cattle ranges. of Mani
toba, are stated 10 he from 80 10 30 per
cent. from severe cold weather.
John Refers died, on Thursday, from
the effects OF falling through a skylight in
Chicago.
John Bemus, roofer in Chicago, fell
from the roof OF building fifty feet TO
the floor, and was killed Tuesday.
ID. A. Brown was crushed between cars
and killed, at Tifiin, Ohio, on Tuesday.
Three more arrests of alleged 'boodlers'
were made in Chicago, an Saturday, and
they were held in bonds for trial. They
were County Commissioner Wren and
Commissioners Van Pelt and Ochs.
A jury was secured IN the Nichols muir
der case, AZ Morris, H., Saturday. and the
taking OF evidence began Monday.
The taking of testimony in the Haddock
murder case was begun Friday, at Sioux
City.
A bad shortage has been discovered in
the books of the LaSalle en- county Off